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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The future of public transportation is shaped like jellyfish. Amazing (and sort of gross) pictures of food. I’m sure you’ve always wondered why tarantulas poop silk out of their feet. Some dang old fish. Maybe it is time to reconsider…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #86
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Marina and the Diamonds.
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Notable San Francisco, This Week 5/16-5/22
This week in San Francisco, Shakespeare gets shaken up a bit for “The Boar’s Head“, grab your skates for a Furry Skate Disco Party and the Portuguese Artists Colony gets Vertigo.
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Tourist Information
Nothin wounded goes uphill… It just don’t happen. I got stuck rereading that sentence on the plane for a long time.
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Notable New York, This Week 5/16-5/22
This week in New York Danzy Senna at BookCourt, Europa turns out its 100th book; I Am Turning Into My Mother six-word stories at 92YTribeca; Steamboat literary comedy series at Greenlight; Tayari Jones reads from Silver Sparrow at Girls Write…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
When I go, I want to go on a euthanasia-coaster. A look at the history of Science Fiction. Icons Zootomicae. Admit it, you want to look at 1960s Paris fashion. What did you do when YOU were nine? (Probably not…
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Doll Fascination
File these two under “a freaky campaign to get adults to play with dolls”: Did you know that Barbie likes director David Lynch’s organic coffee? Or that your favorite doll could be turned into a wine glass?
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100 Interviews
Late last year, Gaby Dunn, a New York journalist and comedian, set out to interview 100 people in a year (deadline October 1, 2011) for her project titled “100 Interviews.” She created a list of people she “knew existed in…
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Whitewashing the X-Men
“Captain America punching Hitler in the jaw is Captain America knocking him across the room with the weight of the culture. The X-Men going from multiracial to white to needing a white Messiah is the weight of the culture. The…
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When a Marriage License Just Isn’t Enough
Want to get entangled quantum-ly? Conceptual artist Jonathon Keats has developed a way for the two of you to join at the subatomic level. “Keats has designed an entangling apparatus, which, when situated in a sunny window and exposed to…